Portal and Profiles

No, you don't need to maintain the information on your Squiz/CMS staff profile. Eventually the research components on staff profiles will be switched off. Your Pure Profile is the only profile that you need to maintain going forward. Some data from staff profiles (updated in 2025) was copied to Pure. Research Services will also ensure the Web Team have relevant information to maintain CMS staff profiles going forward.

No, you don't need to manually add research outputs/publications to Pure.  Your publications must be in RUNE to be visible in Pure. If you have publications missing in Pure and/or RUNE, contact the RUNE Team in the Library.

Pure  calculates the H index based on publications held in Pure.  While UNE is implementing some workarounds to get missing publications into RUNE and pre 2015 publications into Pure, we have switched off visibility of the H index on Pure Profiles. Once work is complete, we will turn on  the Pure H index and it will be visible on your profile. In the interim period you can use your H index listed on external sites such as Google Scholar.

Pure content type 'Awards' need to be transitioned to Pure content type 'Projects' in order to make them visible on Profiles i.e. Awards don't show on profiles, but Projects do. Some work has been completed to create Projects but further work needs to be undertaken to ensure Project information is complete and ready to appear on profiles. Research Services will be providing support to finalise this work over the next couple of months.

The Research Performance Team will reach out to work through your awards and projects for this purpose.

UNE has identified preferred minimum data for a quality researcher profile. The minimum data includes a photo, bio, keywords, relevant sustainable development goals, fields of research and your email address.

There is other data that you can voluntarily enter into your profile. Simply work through the metadata screen when you click on 'Edit Profile' and add whatever information you wish.

Most importantly, you need to address the visibility of your profile i.e. if you don't mark it as 'Public - no restriction' in the visibility section, your  Pure Profile will not be visibile on the Pure Portal. You can correct this at any point in time.

The Pure Portal is the web interface or landing page for Pure. The portal displays profiles, outputs, projects, activities etc (and any other content that UNE has switched on) so profiles are one component of the Portal.

The fact that you are on the UNE Register of Supervisors will be shared from the Graduate Research School to Research Services who will pre--populate this information to your Pure Profile on your behalf. You don't need to change this section of the Profile data as we will keep supervisor register information current on Pure Profiles on your behalf.

Pure allows you to list the fact that you have capacity to take on new HDR students and it also provides you with the ability to list the projects you are trying to recruit students to. This can be, for example, a funded project name or alternatively it could be a broad research area.

UNE requests that you review your profile at least annually or when you have a new publication, grant or activity or if you are promoted or change roles etc. Your bio should be refreshed annually to keep it current. As new publications and awards/projects are made available in Pure, you can go in and link to other content types. Research Services will  include  regular reminders in the Research Newsletter.

The Pure portal will be visible on the external facing webpages at the end of April. If you want your profile to be visible at this point in time your data should be added or reviewed prior. If you are not able to update by this date, we recommend that you login to Pure and update your profile as soon as possible thereafter. Don't forget you also need to set visibility of your profile to Public - no restriction for it to appear on  the Pure Portal.

For this initial project, UNE is firstly switching on the visibility of researchers with at least 5 publications since 2018. Other than this group the default visibility has not been changed. Honorary staff eg Adjuncts and Emeritus Professors will be the 2nd cohort that will be supported to develop Pure Profiles followed by Current HDR students.  Each cohort will be supported with direct communications providing instructions and links to resources.

Existing staff profiles on the Squiz/CMS system will be pared back to contain contact details, photo and bio.  The CMS staff profiles are required in order to maintain CMS functionality across the University's website. Research Services will provide regular reports to the UNE Web Team to facilitate the creation, maintenance and archival of academic staff profiles. Researchers only need to maintain their Pure Profile. Your Pure Profile should not include a link back to the CMS staff profile. If you have a staff profile link in Pure, please delete it. We actually will operate it in reverse i.e. Research Services will provide your Pure Profile URL to the Web Team so that link can be added to your Squiz/CMS Staff Profile.

No, you do not need to make your Pure profile public. Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances that might prevent you from wanting a public profile. However, researchers normally want to promote their research, in order to facilitate collaboration and attract new HDR students and one way to do that is to have a comprehensive and compelling researcher profile visible to the public.

Yes, you can add additional information into your profile at any point in time. We do request that you have the minimum data entered (photo, bio, keywords, FoR codes and  Sustainable Development Goals)  as a starting point and you can then make the profile visible. Subsequently you can go back  into your profile to add any other additional information you want to include  eg Education/Qualifications, external links eg LinkedIn, Scopus, professional and teaching information. You can also add HDR project information at anytime as well.

We highly recommend sharing/promoting your Pure Profile URL to help build traffic to the page.  This includes a recommendation to add your Pure Profile link in your email signature.

The Graduate Research School is also implementing the use of a QR code that will point to the Pure Portal.

Keywords and a well populated profile allow you to be easily 'searchable' so make the most of the data fields available to you in Pure. The Profiles User Guide provides helpful information about populating your profile in Pure. Further advice is available from the Research Performance Team in Research Services.

UNE will also make changes to existing pages within CMS to ensure web traffic is directed to the Pure Portal and profile pages.  The UNE Find an Expert functionality will also be configured to point to the Pure Portal.

Your Pure Profile should NOT include a link to your Staff profile in CMS. If you have that set up in Pure currently, we request that you remove it from Pure. Research Services will be providing Pure Profile URLs to the Web Team to prepopulate, on your behalf, to your CMS Staff profile page.

If you have updated your profile data and your profile is not appearing on the UNE Pure Portal you may have missed the visibility  settings in Pure. You will need to log back into Pure, click Edit Profile and on the metadata screen, scroll to the bottom to see the  visibility settings. Select 'Public - no restriction' and then click  on the blue Save button at the bottom of the screen. This should trigger visibility on the Portal.

If you have uploaded a photo but it isn't appearing on your profile  there may be a couple if things to check:

a) the size and ratio of the photo

b)  did you select 'Portrait under type in the Image section of Pure?

Check the Profiles Userguide for details on image file size and dimenions and ratios.

If your publications are displaying in RUNE but are not showing in Pure there could be a number of reasons why this has happened. Each case will need to be investigated. We recommend that you email the RUNE Team in the library with the details of the specific outputs.

Pre 2015 publications (for current researchers) that are not held in RUNE, are going to be loaded into Pure by Research Services in the near future

For technical and/or access issues, please email pure-support@une.edu.au.

Contact research-performance@une.edu.au for advice and guidance on content, navigation and for other non-technical matters.